Ezekiel 25-30
After the last of Judah was taken into captivity, God turned his wrath on the nations surrounding Israel. God spoke a prophetic word to Ezekiel regarding the nations. God handed the Ammonites and Moabites over to the Babylonians because they gloated over Judah's demise, and to the Edomites and the Phillistines who took revenge on Israel, God ordained that they would fall by the sword of Israel and God himself respectively. So what punishment should befall Tyre who had grown prideful due to their success at trading or the Egyptians who had grown prideful by claiming to have created the Nile? Tyre was to be demolished beyond recognition and buried beneath the sea, Egypt was to be given to the Persians and become an also-ran... never to rule again. The sin of pride runs deep in a man's heart and a nation's heart... pride that turns the man or nation away from the creator... and God will not allow it to continue.
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